VA SB 827

Title: Hospital emergency departments; required security and training, regulations.
Author: Barbara A. Favola

Summary
Hospital emergency departments; required security and training; regulations. Directs the Board of Health to amend its regulations to require every hospital with an emergency department to have at least one off-duty law-enforcement officer or a trained security officer present at all times. Hospital protocols shall ensure such officers providing security receive training in the use of weapons, defensive tactics, de-escalation techniques, appropriate physical restraint techniques, crisis intervention, and trauma-informed approaches in identifying and safely addressing situations involving patients, family members, or other persons who pose a risk of harm to themselves or others due to mental illness or substance abuse or who are experiencing a mental health crisis.

Status
Senate: Assigned Education sub: Higher Education

Bill Documents
VA SB 827 - Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101960D
2022-12-21 - VA SB 827 (Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101960D)